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Xavi’s bombshell: Messi return was “already agreed” before Laporta blocked it

Former Barcelona coach Xavi Hernández has broken nearly two years of silence, claiming that Lionel Messi’s return to the club in 2023 was close to completion before president Joan Laporta halted the deal. According to an interview with Xavi published by Joan Josep Pallàs and Anaïs Martí Herrero in La Vanguardia, the former coach says he now felt compelled to tell his version of events surrounding his departure from Barcelona and the failed Messi comeback.

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